Re: TrueType Font Guide feedback
On Thursday 21 June 2001 22:35, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> It's a doc that describes how to get TrueType fonts set up
> correctly on your Debian system. There is an older (and slightly
> outdated) version for Debian 2.2/stable with XFree86 3.3.6, and the
> new version I just posted for Debian testing/unstable with XFree86
> 4.
>
> There are some Debian packages for the actual fonts; unfortunately
> they don't do everything you need to get them working. This doc is
> that bit of glue.
>
> I'm hoping to have time to add more info to it on how to use
> non-packaged TrueType fonts; as of now you have to kind of infer a
> lot of stuff in that situation :-/. But, note that the Microsoft
> core fonts (like Arial, etc.) do have a Debian package (in
> testing/unstable).
>
>
> http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/
Interesting documents. One font problem however that I have yet to
find an answer to is this:
How do you produce curly quotes (a.ka. typographical quotation marks)
in Linux?
In Windoze and the Mac there are well-known keyboard combinations
that will produce them, something like ALT-0(###) in the former and
Option-key1-key2 in the Mac.
Abiword and IIRC KWord have smart quotes options, but in Linux you
get just plain old inch marks. Having gotten my computer to work like
a fax machine (via efax), my next step in my Linux adventure is to
turn it into a DTP workstation.
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